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with our new digital archives! Take a scroll through HISTORY Happy Father’s Day! Enjoy these articles from our digital archives about this special day. Father’s Day founder remembered - June 15, 1986 William Jackson Smart was a nurturing father before nurturing fathers were in vogue. When his wife died in 1898, he single- handedly raised six children, one of whom founded Father’s Day in his honor. Smart’s only daughter, Sonora Smart Dodd, started the holiday June 6, 1910. Congress gave the day its blessing in 1914. Another congressional endorsement and a presidential proclamation by President Richard Nixon in 1971 firmly established the holiday’s permanence. Mrs. Dodd, who died at age 96 in 1978, said she sought the holiday to honor her father. “It is not difficult to recall the twilight of an early March day at the turn of the cen- tury, when bereavement came to us at the loss of our mother,” she said more than 20 years ago. “Father assumed the father-mother role in the rearing of his six children. This role he performed with courage and selflessness until we were all in homes of our own.” Mothers already had a holiday early in the century. Mrs. Dodd argued that it was unfair that fathers had no similar day. Father’s Day: A day to think and be thankful By John Faust of The Times and Democrat – June 20, 1965 The picture on this page is of William F. Evans, known as Billy to his unnumbered friends, underneath all those children. Sure the picture was posed. But the grins weren’t. Those came from the heart. Believe me, they were just plain happy that their dad had been picked to represent all fathers on Father’s Day. It’s not hard to pinpoint the reason why. They are loved by their father and mother. We asked: “If you had your married life to live over, would you have five children again?” Billy Evans didn’t hesitate in his answer. “Yes. My feelings on our five children are that they enjoy each other, they have the same interests. Now, the kids range from 14 down to 8 years old. Children close together in years will grow close together.” We print this picture to prompt you to do a little thinking. June 20th has been designated Father’s Day to mold the thinking of a nation into one single thought…the importance of a father. Don’t just make the mis- take of assuming one day a year is Father’s Day. It’s every day. Father’s Day is the day your child or children, for no reason, climb onto your lap, plant a juicy smack on your cheek and say, “I love you, Daddy!” Father’s Day is when the kids make some mistake in growing up and you try to guide them in their stumbling, learning path to maturity. Father’s Day is when your child brings you some laboriously colored picture, full of clashing colors and stands waiting for your exclamation of praise. Father’s Day is being invited to play “Soldier,” or football with the kids, with no thought that you will refuse on the absurd (to them) grounds of grownup dignity. Father’s Day is plugging along day after day in the same routine to provide the family with the best your abilities can supply. Father’s Day is biting on a cold, left-over steak sandwich, looking down and discovering two sad eyes following your every move. Father’s Day is having the privilege of working out pressing family prob- lems with no little sacrifice to your own personal desires. Father’s Day is when you realize that you will leave on the green Earth, children who can bear your name with pride. The only thing you will leave on this small sphere spinning in the immense universe is your memory… and your children, their children and their children’s children. Lift your face to your Maker and thank Him for your blessings. TheTandD.com/archives 149 Centre Street • P.O. Box 844 • Orangeburg, S.C. 29116-0844 GERALD J. DAVIS, ATTORNEY geralddavislaw.com AUTO-ACCIDENTS • CRIMINAL DEFENSE • PERSONAL INJURY • DUI & TRAFFIC THE DAVIS LAW FIRM, P.C. 803•531•3888 • FAX (803) 531-3322 TheTandD.com
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Take a scroll through
HISTORY
Happy Father’s Day! Enjoy these articles from our digital archives about this special day.
Father’s Day founder remembered - June 15, 1986
William Jackson Smart was a nurturing father before nurturing fathers were in vogue. When his wife died in 1898, he single-handedly raised six children, one of whom founded Father’s Day in his honor.
Smart’s only daughter, Sonora Smart Dodd, started the holiday June 6, 1910. Congress gave the day its blessing in 1914. Another congressional endorsement and a presidential proclamation by President Richard Nixon in 1971 firmly established the holiday’s permanence.
Mrs. Dodd, who died at age 96 in 1978, said she sought the holiday to honor her father. “It is not difficult to recall the twilight
of an early March day at the turn of the cen-tury, when bereavement came to us at the loss of our mother,” she said more than 20 years ago. “Father assumed the father-mother role in the rearing of his six children. This role he performed with courage and selflessness until we were all in homes of our own.”
Mothers already had a holiday early in the century. Mrs. Dodd argued that it was unfair that fathers had no similar day.
Father’s Day: A day to think and be thankfulBy John Faust of The Times and Democrat – June 20, 1965
The picture on this page is of William F. Evans, known as Billy to his unnumbered friends, underneath all those children. Sure the picture was posed. But the grins weren’t. Those came from the heart. Believe me, they were just plain happy that their dad had been picked to represent all fathers on Father’s Day. It’s not hard to pinpoint the reason why. They are loved by their father and mother. We asked: “If you had your married life to live over, would you have five children again?” Billy Evans didn’t hesitate in his answer. “Yes. My feelings on our five children are that they enjoy each other, they have the same
interests. Now, the kids range from 14 down to 8 years old. Children close together in years will grow close together.”
We print this picture to prompt you to do a little thinking. June 20th has been designated Father’s Day to mold the thinking of a nation into one single thought…the importance of a father. Don’t just make the mis-take of assuming one day a year is Father’s Day. It’s every day.
Father’s Day is the day your child or children, for no reason, climb onto your lap, plant a juicy smack on your cheek and say, “I love you, Daddy!”
Father’s Day is when the kids make some mistake in growing up and you try to guide them in their stumbling, learning path to maturity.
Father’s Day is when your child brings you some laboriously colored picture, full of clashing colors and stands waiting for your exclamation of praise.
Father’s Day is being invited to play “Soldier,” or football with the kids, with no
thought that you will refuse on the absurd (to them) grounds of grownup dignity.
Father’s Day is plugging along day after day in the same routine to provide the family with the best your abilities can supply.
Father’s Day is biting on a cold, left-over steak sandwich, looking down and discovering two sad eyes following your every move.
Father’s Day is having the privilege of working out pressing family prob-
lems with no little sacrifice to your own personal desires.
Father’s Day is when you realize that you will leave on the green Earth, children who can bear your name with pride. The only thing you will leave on this small sphere spinning in the immense universe is your memory… and your children, their children and their children’s children.
Lift your face to your Maker and thank Him for your blessings.
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